Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.